bother
Example Sentences
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"Walking downhill, whenever your foot slides into the very end of your shoe is when it maybe gives me a bit of bother but it's totally fine. A mountain out of a molehill."
From BBC • May 13, 2026
"Three days under surveillance, that doesn't bother us at all," one passenger, Roland Seitre, said just before taking off from Tenerife earlier Sunday.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
Don’t bother asking AI for an inflation forecast.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
For a time, Chinese exporters intentionally mislabeled some shipments to skirt U.S. and European sanctions, but in many instances they no longer bother, according to former senior Treasury Department officials and weapons analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
We were on the street in minutes, and I didn’t bother tying the sun hat’s wide ribbon under my chin as I skipped after Aunt Kitty.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Vocabulary lists containing bother
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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